And carrying on with the seat theme, I had my first chance to use the natty folding passenger one the other day when I bought a tall plant at the local garden centre.

The outside seat either folds down into the floor to make extra load length or up to allow for high loads, and that’s exactly what I did – a quick flip of a lever and my plant was safely in place for its journey home (see picture).

We still haven’t managed a pukka fuel economy test on the van yet but first suggestions are that we aren’t quite managing the claimed 48.7 mpg.

Our figure is more in the region of 42mpg, but having said that a lot of our trips so far have been short-haul stuff, so our figure isn’t maybe an entirely fair one.

After all, in the old Partner we managed 50mpg at one stage – and it has the same engine as this model.

We’ve got a few longer trips in the offing with some heavyish loads to bear, so we’ll be giving you an update in the next issue.

But even 42mpg isn’t to be sneezed at for a vehicle of this size, which boasts 10% more loadspace than the old Partner and a very pleasing set of road manners, which make it a delight to drive.